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HUGH JACKMAN possibly to star as Houdini on Broadway. Just glue a top hat to the guy's head, already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Houdini. The microscopic pas de deux isn't even visible to the naked eye. Still, the phenomenon is not as uncommon as it might seem. Every time you ice skate, you experience something similar, as the shared properties of skate blade against ice create a thin film of water of a very particular thickness on which you, after a fashion, levitate. What makes the Harvard and NIH work so promising is its nano scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning More About Levitation | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...doing keyword searches for Pez dispensers is not the same as pulling off the road to explore a junk store and finding a prize. Collecting involves more than just buying a full set of something. It is the quest for a family reunion: the posters for all 15 Houdini movies from 1919, all 177 pieces of a Minton dinner set. There's the possibility of failure and the hope for immortality. That helps explain why we have 17,500 museums in America alone, ranging from the Getty and the Whitney to Boston's Museum of Dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama, and the Rush For Election Souvenirs | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Murphy said.In the meantime, the Crimson will have to keep hoping nothing goes wrong until Harvard and its coaches can figure it out. If they can escape over the next two weeks, it’ll be the second straight year that the Crimson has pulled a Houdini act in that phase.“Last year’s championship team, we won an undefeated championship despite being below average on special teams, and right now we’re competing for a championship and quite frankly at times struggle on special teams,” Murphy said...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Special Teams Plague Harvard | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Virginia: Obama's "Houdini" Project, 8:30 a.m. E.T. Amid the long lines seen during early morning voting across Virginia, Obama volunteers have begun to put a special, research-driven, get-out-the vote campaign called the "Houdini" project. It is designed to locate areas where the campaign can get more voters to the polls. Stationed at polling places, Obama volunteers check voters against a database of known voters in the area, compiled through a mixture of door-to-door canvassing and publicly available information. "Names of voters get passed to an outside representative who has a targeted list," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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